On Saturday 29 December 2001 09:20, Harry Woodrow wrote:
| The fact that IE does not crash is correct behavior.
| Browsers should forgive the mistakes of the page writer after all the
| user didnt make them and presumably the author did try to convey
| information.. On the other hand authoring tools should not allow you to
| make bad code. A BMW car has an extremely good ABS system to make up for
What a nice message! :-)
I really LOVE this list! :-))
... And highly appreciate the fact that we finally switched from browsers
(hell-knows-what-inside-it?) to cars (which have engine, wheels, body and a
lot of other interesting stuff).
Anyway, I hardly believe you can compare MS IE to BMW - MS IE is much more
close to FIAT or Daewoo, which are good cars, but not luxurious.
And Mozilla reminds me Ford F-series pickup - it does its job but car is
heavy enermously and fuel consumption can kill almost every budget.
| the driver's braking mistakes,it does not crash if the driver makes a minor
| mistake, this does not mean that the driver should drive badly.
| If you want browsers to crash on bad input do you also want cars to?
| :)))))
I think you misunderstood me.
I wrote "MS IE bombs you on broken (not well-formed) XML" - there is nothing
said about crash.
You can check - try to render broken XML in MS IE, it will just display you
"error processing blah-blah-blah". I attached small example (good+bad XML)
for your reference.
And, as we started comparision to cars:
Do you know that some cars in Japan *reject* to start engine when driver is
completely drunk? So, what's bad when good browser rejects to render broken
content? (replace it with good one, pleeaaase...)
|
| Harry Woodrow
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On
| Behalf Of Vadim Plessky
| Sent: Saturday, 29 December 2001 5:45 PM
| To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
| Subject: Re: Minimal Browser Capabilities
|
[...]
|
| | HTML) and tolerant in what you accept (browsers should work with
| | broken HTML).
|
| Hopefully, even MS IE bombs you on broken (not well-formed) XML.
| So, the real chance for all of us to come away from "broken content" is
| to accelerate transition to XML (not XHTML, which is *again* intermediary
| solution!) and sacrifice all HTML 4.0, 3.2, etc.
| So, I would love to see "XML support" in "Minimal Browser Capabilities",
| and all browsers not supporting XML falling into "non-conforming" category
| :-))
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